Green earth pigment from the Kadaň region, Czech Republic: Use of rare Fe-rich smectite

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 767-778

  Hradil, David ^a   Grygar, Tomáš ^a   Hrušková, Michaela ^a   Bezdička, Petr ^a   Lang, Kamil ^a   Schneeweiss, Oldřich ^b   Chvátal, Marek ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS OF MATERIALS   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Artists' pigments; Celadonite; Ferruginous smectite; Glauconite; Green earths

Indexed keywords

CHLORITE MINERALS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MINERALOGY; REFLECTOMETERS; TITANIUM; VOLCANOES; VOLTMETERS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

GREEN EARTHS; GREEN MICAS; PROVENANCE;

PIGMENTS;

ART; COLOR; GLAUCONITE; MINERALOGY; PIGMENT; SMECTITE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

MICA;

EID: 11144262271     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2004.0520612     Document Type: Article

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